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Bruce Willis' wife Emma Heming says return of childhood stutter masked his decline before dementia diagnosis


Bruce Willis' wife Emma Heming Willis is opening up about how an early stutter he suffered from may have covered up the initial symptoms of his frontotemporal dementia.

In a new interview with Town & Country, Emma revealed that the 69-year-old movie icon had difficulty speaking early in his cognitive decline, but she initially took that to a recurrence of the 'severe stutter' that he had had dealt with through his teen years. In a new interview with Town & Country , Emma revealed that the 69-year-old movie icon had difficulty speaking early in his cognitive decline, but she initially took that to a recurrence of the 'severe stutter' that he had had dealt with through his teen years In the same Town & Country interview, Emma revealed that her and Bruce's two young daughters — Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10 — began to notice signs of his cognitive decline before he was officially diagnosed with dementia.

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